1857 INDIAN Tribes Schoolcraft Native American Wars Nanticoke Amer Revolution HUGE

1857 INDIAN Tribes Schoolcraft Native American Wars Nanticoke Amer Revolution HUGE

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an early American ethnologist and expert on Native American culture. He was well-known for his Congress-commissioned study on United States Indian tribes beginning in 1851, of which the content was considered ‘valuable scholarship’ by critics.

In 1847, the United States Congress passed an act which collected the history of Native American Indian tribes, a task which Schoolcraft headed. The final volume of the work proved to be the best as it was regularly published under the title “The American Indians”.

Schoolcraft’s studies on Indians are considered the most extensive works on Native Americans published in the 19^th-century, and, according to Field contain

“a vast mass of really valuable information and has indeed performed a very important service for Indian history, in collecting and preserving an immense amount of historic data. Vocabularies of Indian languages, grammatical analyses, legends of various tribes, biographies of chiefs and warriors, narratives of captivities, histories of Indian wars, emigrations, and theories of their origin, are all related and blended in an extraordinary manner.”

Item number: #22987

Price: $795

SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe

[Information respecting the history]… History of the Indian tribes of the United States

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1857

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages;
  • xxviii, 25-756
  • 64 illustrations
• References: Field 1373; Howes S 188; Larned 676
• Provenance: Handwritten – T. Wells
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; secure
  • Cloth
• Size: ~13.25in X 10.75in (33.5cm x 27cm)

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